Yes. Thank you.
I think the additional context that's required for us is that as a northern or remote employer we face additional challenges with our apprentices that urban employers or employers who operate in larger centres just simply won't have, and that's the distance between the home community and the institution.
Many of our apprentices come from communities that could be as small as 500 or 1,000 people, and they don't often leave their communities. Asking them to leave for seven weeks of training is a real barrier, a psychological barrier and an economic barrier. They are also individuals who haven't had access to the strongest foundational secondary education, and they will struggle with some of the core components of the apprenticeship program. That's why, as an organization, we've tried to have our workplace educators provide some tutorial or academic support to these individuals who are in those programs so that they are ultimately successful, because they have an investment in that and we have an investment in that, and we don't want to see them fail.
But it is definitely a challenge in the sense that the distance between some of these communities and their learning opportunities is quite far, and in many cases it is just too insurmountable for these individuals. Again, that could be psychological, or economic, or a combination of both. We've tried different things. We've had the trades training trailers for select occupations go to those communities, so that the individuals don't necessarily have to move or disrupt their lives, but obviously not all trades are able to be delivered like that. We try to seek areas where it's flexible, but it is definitely a challenge, and one that we continue to face as we look to diversify our workforce.